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by kalleboo 697 days ago
That's the point of the Secure Enclave, where the password keys are stored. It's designed to be impossible to image. Early attacks relied on pulling the power to the chip after it sent a failure message but before it updated the attempt counter, this is fixed on newer revisions to happen the other way around.
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Are you a hardware engineer at apple speaking in official capacity? Not that I would believe that even you were. Of course the government can read their surveillance device.